Mother Board Help...

[Greatscott]

Finally got moved into my new house, I now have a 15mb/sec connection (schweet), an upgrade from the DSL I was sharing with about 200 people, and I set up my computer, hit the power button, it powers up and that is it, no BIOS, no POST, nothing... I have an asus a7v333 mother board. So here is a rundown of what it is doing...

Turn the power on: All fans come on and it sequences through the drives and then it just sits there, no display, notta.... At this point it should give me a POST tone and say, "Power-On self test completed, computer now booting from operating system." I am not getting any posts messages or tones unless I unplug the keyboard from the PS2 port, then it tells me that I have no keyboard and goes back to being a space heater...

I have checked all power connections, reseated all cards, mashed all connectors, and verified everything is plugged in. If the stupid thing was giving me any kind of POST alert other than my keyboard isn't there when I unplug it I would be happy (maybe not happy, but less pissed anyhow).

Any help on this? For some weird reason I am compelled to replace the BIOS battery, it is about the only thing left.

It doesn't matter to this problem, but here are the rest of the technical specs:
XP Pro
Atholon 1.8 Ghz (yeah, its an older machine, hoping to keep it running a little while longer, don't want to upgrade until the new Windows comes out, Vista makes my butt hurt)
1g of ram
NVIDIA 512mb video card
80g of WD harddrive
DVD and CDRW/DVDRW drives
...and it is the typical crappy tan color.

Thanks for any help.

 

[JeremyH]

Yeah, at the minimum, I would try removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes then reinstall and try again. You also might have a power supply that is going bad. Have you recently changed any hardware on your computer?

BTW, don't complain about the color of your comp....it's what's inside that matters. My tower is a 10 year old white and gray Gateway tower with two black DVD drives and an old zip drive (yeah, I said Zip)...but it's fast as hell!

 

[binaryterror]

Sometimes its also RAM. Try removing them and switching them in the slots. Or try just one stick at a time.

Lately I've seen alot of power supplies loose power on only some rails causing this same problem.

 

[JeremyH]

Any luck?

 

[Greatscott]

:sad:

Nope... Put a new PS in and didn't change the problem, I have swapped ram, swapped drives, unplugged just about everything in sequence. The only way I can get any kind of POST message is to unplug the keyboard, remove the RAM completely, or remove the video card. There is something that isn't allowing the POST to complete and is hanging the test, I'm thinking it might be something in the motherboard. The last thing I have to try is a new CMOS battery, I'll pick one up tomorrow, but I don't think that will cure my problem. I'm hoping I can build a Dell with Win XP (think you can). I would build my own, but it is hard to beat Dell's price.

Thanks for the help!!!

 

[binaryterror]

I just bought 2 Dell's with XP "downgrade".

You need to buy on the small business side and the Vostro Line.

 

[Greatscott]

This evening, in the quiet cool stillness of the night, I took my computer out to the back yard. Gently I set it down, and started to talk about the rabbit farm we would one day have while we looked at the sunset. Just as I was getting to the part that my old computer liked, the part about it tending the rabbits, I quietly eased the hammer back and blew a hole in it big enough to throw a football through, its resistors and transistors pelting the fence with hand grenade lethality. Then, just for good measure, and to make sure that it was truly dead, I reenacted the scene from Office Space... you know the one... (Damn, it is good to be a gansta')...


(Thanks for the info Binary!!! )

 

[slobin3d]

This evening, in the quiet cool stillness of the night, I took my computer out to the back yard. Gently I set it down, and started to talk about the rabbit farm we would one day have while we looked at the sunset. Just as I was getting to the part that my old computer liked, the part about it tending the rabbits, I quietly eased the hammer back and blew a hole in it big enough to throw a football through, its resistors and transistors pelting the fence with hand grenade lethality. Then, just for good measure, and to make sure that it was truly dead, I reenacted the scene from Office Space... you know the one... (Damn, it is good to be a gansta')...


(Thanks for the info Binary!!! )

Tell me 'bout the rabbids George:mrgreen:"thumbsup"

 

[2JSC]

The first thing you should have done was remove everything that was not necessary. Any seccondary hard drives, cd-drives, video card and leave one stick of ram in it. Then boot it up. If it will POST then, shut it off and add something. If it with POST again, add something else till it won't.

Well, you could have done that before turning it into garbage. :lmao:

 

[Greatscott]

Yeah... did that. That is how I found out what the POST would alert on and what it wouldn't.

 

[RealDeel]

I actually owned that exact MB.......on the MB there is a bios reset jumper........it needed to be moved from jumpers 1-2 to 2-3 for a few seconds. Put back to 1-2 and usually did the trick everytime. Mine did this a lot actually but was fault of my own from overclocking the processor and memory.

Too late though.........lmao

 

[Greatscott]

Where, pray tell, would that jumper be located on the mother board?

I actually owned that exact MB.......on the MB there is a bios reset jumper........it needed to be moved from jumpers 1-2 to 2-3 for a few seconds. Put back to 1-2 and usually did the trick everytime. Mine did this a lot actually but was fault of my own from overclocking the processor and memory.

Too late though.........lmao

 

[yoda316]

with the battery already taken out it has been reset. so no need to find the jumpers.
does it have a internal speaker ? if so does it make a sequence of beeps?
does the monitor show anything when first starting?. as in can you go into the bios?






http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=A7V333

 

[Greatscott]

with the battery already taken out it has been reset. so no need to find the jumpers.
does it have a internal speaker ? if so does it make a sequence of beeps?
does the monitor show anything when first starting?. as in can you go into the bios?








http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=A7V333

I just ran through Asus' troubleshooting guide, I'm on the last step, "Call the retailer the mother board was purchased from.". :? It is about five years old...

No POST beeps, nothing on the monitor, no bois. There is something that is making it hang in the POST test without an alert, which, according to Asus, means there is something wrong with the motherboard... :-(

 

[yoda316]

yea kinda sounds like the mb is your problem.
you can check basic stuff visually like the capacitors , if one is bad they will usually look like a soda can left in teh freezer. maybe even some electrolyte leaked from it.
you can fix that but in all honestly you could just build a new pc for 400 bucks that will be soo much better and faster than the one you were using.
newegg.com = your friend




ps. if you do build your own, dont skimp on a psu, i see so many people just go with a cheapy free with cheap case psu .
it never works out for them in the end though.